Following an preliminary research, Yeager Power with EBN and utility SVP are transferring forward with a geothermal district heating venture in Purmerend, Netherlands.
With constructive outcomes of an preliminary feasibility research, the geothermal heating venture within the municipality of Purmerend within the Netherlands is about to progress to a extra detailed investigation and the beginning of the allowing course of. The venture is a joint effort of developer Yeager Power, Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN), Stadsverwarming Purmerend (SVP), and the Municipality of Purmerend.
The geothermal venture aspires to provide sustainable and inexpensive warmth to Purmerend’s present heating community. Serving round 27,000 connection, the at the moment heating community operated by SVP primarily runs on biomass, with pure gas-fired coilers for peak demand and backup.
The exploration license for the ‘Purmerend 3’ space, positioned simply above the municipality of Purmerend, was granted to Yeager Power within the 4th quarter of 2021. This 12 months, Yeager Power and EBN will concentrate on additional investigating the potential for geothermal warmth extraction, in addition to the beginning of strategy of securing permits together with the environmental allow and the environmental influence evaluation.
“If the extra analysis confirms that the subsurface is appropriate for the secure and accountable extraction of geothermal warmth and the allow course of goes easily, follow-up steps will be taken,” mentioned the events concerned.
By 2027, it’s anticipated that the heating community in Purmerend shall be partially related to a geothermal warmth supply and that the primary households can begin to profit from a clear and renewable warmth provide.
Yeager Power can also be creating geothermal within the Nissewaard license space and the Aardwarmte Delfland venture by the acquisition of Warmtebedrijf Westland again in 2021.
Supply: Geothermie Nederland and Yeager Power
